GeoServer printing preview release

Remember the good ol’ days, when the only maps you had were pieces of paper? The past is now!

Hi, I’m Alan, and I’m interning with OpenGeo this summer. My first order of business has been plugging MapFish‘s printing capability into GeoServer as a community module; right now we’re releasing a developer preview. The module exposes an HTTP interface that allows the user to ask the server to compose an attractive map in PDF format. MapFish also provides a JavaScript library that allows easy printing from a OpenLayers map.

I am responsible for the java serverside portion of the print servlet. Let me know if you have questions. I don’t have all the answers as I am just picking up the module but I would be happy to help if you have questions.

I followed your instructions to Install the MapFish printing extension on my GeoServer 2.0.0 in Tomcat, but I can’t get it working, since it complains on not finding the file “info.json”

I find it very difficult to understand how the MapFish Print Module is working, since it is poor documentated. I have problems with the info.json and I don’t understand the function of create.json and print.pdf. Is there any good documentation or wike available?